Another Guitar Fret Tang Nipping Tool!!

[@Angatyr34]

Spent about 30 minutes trying to find the simplest but functional solution that wasn't going to cost a bunch. Highline to the rescue yet again!

[@SandersAmps]

Wow. It's so cool how the simplest solution is so often the best. I'm making one of these right now! Thank you HL guitars!

[@paintbox48]

I've just made and used one of these - so simple with perfect results. I used a perspex piece for the top holder, thinking it would wear less than wood, and I was lucky enough to have a file with a smooth side to run against it. I can't imagine anything guaranteed to give better results. Cheers.

[@hilltopmusicshop6566]

Awesome! Gonna make one tonight. Thanks for the video!

[@michaelallen2390]

Excellent idea. I made one today and it works very well. Thanks so much.

[@staffansvahn]

Thank you. I appreciate very much that you share your knowledge. Best wishes

[@DaveParkersonofficial]

I made one of these and it works extremely well. Thank you 🙏

[@jimcatmandude9316]

I would definitely say this was thoroughly explained...

[@johnmeehan1836]

The best inventions are always the simplest inventions, so much cheaper than buying expensive tang nippers ! Thanks for sharing this simple but effective tool .

[@HighlineGuitars]

Thanks for watching!

[@Mrcustomwerkz]

Appreciate your sharing sessions sir.. much love from my little workshop in Singapore

[@Projectelectricguitar]

Thanks for the great idea Chris. I've been using a bench-top vise to hold the fret in place while I file away the tang... but even with masking tape on the teeth of the vise, the pressure creates small scratches on the fret. Your method solves that problem. I will make this fret holder jig...!

[@waltersguitars3336]

THANKS CHRIS!!!! that jig is freaking AWSOME!!!!. saves me alot of money and it does a prefect tang removal. !! I just made one. It took me less than 10 min to make. lol i even used maple and rosewood like you did. its what i had laying around but works great!!. i start with the big file than use my small file to creep up to the end. Keep up the great vids. Craig. Walters guitars

[@StGosch]

Awesome. Simple idea, but very cool solution. Thx 👍 and greetings from Germany

[@philiphale4320]

I like this method, it's simple and inexpensive, Thanks

[@user-mb4db2fd6e]

thanks for the video,I made the tang tool,easy to make,only took about 30 minutes to make,works great!thanks

[@DankradMP]

Thank you!!!! This has been a life saver for ss frets❤

[@lesbartlett8063]

Brilliant little jig thanks for sharing

[@antmax]

I made a simple one of these today just holding the two pieced together. I snipped the tang ends off and used this device to file the last .5mm off. Worked really well if your doing low volume fret reinstall.

[@erickaufmancustomguitars1351]

Fantastic. Thanks again Chris. You must have Leo's blood..

[@stevewinters5895]

THANKS! I'm going to build mine to file 2 or 3 at a time.

[@TheStobb50]

Thank you I’m going to try that

[@onpsxmember]

This is better than the dremel jig. It's quiet, needs no electricity and if you buy one really good file it will last forever. When you work with stainless steel frets a lot, buy a vallorbe/dick file with the insane hardness and it'll just shrug it off. With different blocks/grooves for certain fretwire this is also very accurate. Cutting with a wheel, the dremel bits and the nibblers cost more and you have more work. I've seen someone holding the fretwire in a grove with pliers and use the side of them as a guide for the file. Your system is more stable and holds the fretwire in place by shape while keeping it adjustable.

[@pierremarcmartelli5972]

Brilliant ! Thanks for sharing…

[@xhibitionism]

Thank you very much for showing us the best way.

[@MarioinRmd]

That's really great.. A couple of minor improvements would be a large base to clamp it to your bench, and grinding or sanding the file edge so you don't cut into the clamp portion of the jig.. I'm not terribly fond of the nibbler thing either..

[@HighlineGuitars]

I clamp it into a vise, but your right about grinding the edge of the file.

[@MarioinRmd]

I actually bought the Klein nibbler (aka the one that Stew Mac modified for their tool... Or used to anyway, before Klein discontinued it) and did a not so great job modifying it.. I always end up filing anyway.. So why not just file the whole thing and be done with it, right? I now refer to it as the tang mangler...

[@frontbum420]

This is the way I have been doing it and it works great

[@mikehidalgo4171]

Mike Hidalgo from San Diego yet another great idea for stainless frets I will add a jewelers loop to the hold down

[@searingcustomguitars3899]

wow Chris that is a great simple jig the tang can be a pain some times

[@lalainaichane319]

Thanks, that's really useful! I'm gonna build one soon.

[@diegopadovani4942]

Thanks for sharing. I'll try to make one for my first guitar built (just a hobbyist here).

[@diegopadovani4942]

I tested, and it worked really well! Many thanks again! For my first build, its awesome!

[@DavidRavenMoon]

Regarding the hardware store nipper, you get what you pay for. I’ve been using the same StewMac nipper for the past 30 years. Still cuts cleanly and doesn’t bend the tang. Also doesn’t hurt my hand. For stainless steel I use a Dremel cut off wheel. A system like this takes too long!

[@HighlineGuitars]

That's why I use the Sintoms fret tang nipper now. However, this way still is good if you are building only one guitar and don't want to invest in a StewMac, Sintoms, LMII, or others.

[@DavidRavenMoon]

Highline Guitars The Sintoms looks nice.

[@SlamoCustomGuitars]

Simple and effective. I wonder what the best file would be for SS fretwire?

[@sergejk]

i would like to know either :)

[@stevesstrings5243]

Great Idea! Thanks!

[@mikkosutube]

looks like each time it is used you wear away some of the wood..so after a while you would need to replace the tool..maybe removing the teeth from the edge of the file (not the face that is cutting the tang of course), and putting some kind of skateboard bearing rollers that run along the edge of the file..

[@meno3633]

works for me!! thanks for sharing

[@michaeladamcaira9174]

another brilliant idea,i use my dremmel to it but i like this better,

[@Wils0n951]

have you tried small dremel cutoff wheels to cut the tangs, with your dremel jig? They are easy to find, inexpensive to replace, and they will cut stainless...

[@baum7222]

Have you never used a stewmac fret tang nipper? Have literally never had any problems with it

[@kommi1974]

You mean that overpriced tool from China with a 200,000% markup?

[@IntoTheTroid1]

I see you also do model boats in your free time....cool

[@thanosdopassado]

This tool works with stainsteel frets?

[@HighlineGuitars]

@@thanosdopassado yes. All I use is stainless steel.

[@dogfacedboy6947]

Gorgeous! I'm a bit cave-mannish, and as soon as I see this I look to see what I can eliminate. I already have any number of clampy. closey things - I've bought a few little vises at yard sales, there's even a thing CALLED a "hand vise"; the $5 table at Ace.... so when I see this my mind says "Can I just make the heart of it as some slip-over JAW attachments?" The anwer is "Yes!" but I imagine they'd be forlorn and lonely soon, because as a caveman I DON'T MAKE GITS WITH NECK BINDING. I HATE binding. Ugg... wham wham etc. Freebie: slip two credit cards between the strings and fretboard. Push them up to the nut. Slip a 1/4" to 3/16" inch ANYthing BETWEEN the credit cards and push IT up to the nut. Your strings will lift up, even under full tension, so you can TAKE THE NUT OUT. The full ramification is, you can do ALL your nut work OFF the guitar, keep the strings fully tuned, you never have to worry about scratches, shrapnel damage again! This pup's TRANSFORMATIVE, and even Stewie doesn't know it! It works much better with longer pieces of plastic - just THINK, save that kinda "junk" up. Clear, thick vacuum packaging.... Ugg. Mastodon! Me like'm... wham wham. Etc... Prolly you can't buy this because even Stewie can't figure out how to charge $20 for two sheets of plastic (pickguard stuff work'm 2, 2" X 5") and instructions for stickin' a screwdrive shaft between 'em? You'll spend about one-QUARTER of the time playing with yer nuts, too, maybe that's the danger.

[@anagonz4887]

Sir what size of your file

[@walterrider9600]

thank you

[@GerryBlue]

Patent this before Stewmac does

[@HighlineGuitars]

It would take a few of decades of huge sales to cover the cost of a patent.

[@fernandoolavo4757]

great

[@dozukime]

Put some music, file away, meditate & no metal dust in the air, well, not so much as the dremel = great jig!

[@binarydust]

Make me one, I’ll buy it off of you!

[@petertorro]

Chris i like your tools. I am not technician at all but is it an idea with your manual tool to use a griptang to tightened fast?

[@HighlineGuitars]

What?

[@espiritguitar]

to much talking, and very poor images how the tool works. edit the video beacuse in real true is shorter than you talk.

[@HighlineGuitars]

The real truth is 10,260 views with 286 likes and only 5 dislikes.